Every spring, gardeners wait for a familiar flash of orange wings to glide into their yards. Monarch butterflies, the symbols of transformation and endurance, have long enchanted both scientists and ...

The arrival of monarchs in the Northeast is one of nature’s most beautiful spectacles. Their grueling journey pays off, but ...

With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates gardeners to provide extra care for these pollinators in their gardens. These ...

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

For so many people, the classroom transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of their earliest experiences with science and nature. Which is why it’s so distressing to know that the ...

SALISBURY — Last weekend, Salisbury had a hand in one of the largest natural migrations taking place across the U.S., and it happened in a flutter. Hurley Park hosted the annual monarch butterfly ...

Anurag Agrawal, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at Cornell University, gives a talk about monarch butterflies on Oct. 16, 2025. The talk was the second lecture in the Teale Lecture ...